Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, the French colonial regime continued to lose group to the revolutionary Viet Minh from 1946 to 1954. Once more, a popular revolution, based on peasant discontent, broke out. Production and agriculture had already fallen by half; the peasants liberated by the Viet Minh from the burden of rent and excessive taxes were not prepared politically or economically to accept their return...
...original Senate amendments-which would have kept the disputed hospitals and agriculture stations open no later than June 30, the end of the current fiscal year. When the President heard what had happened he was thoroughly annoyed, ordered the whole deal called off. Convinced that he stood to lose on the Arab issue unless he gave way, he offered a 60-day postponement of the shutdowns. The conferees held out for 75 days-until...
...Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri last week was at the center of a linguistic whirlwind. The storm began to blow when a parliamentary decree was enacted making Hindi the nation's official language. What bothered millions of non-Hindi-speaking Indians was the fear that they would lose out to the Hindi speakers in government jobs and promotions...
...enough strength to bring down Pearson's minority government and force an election. But while Pearson has lost support, he has not lost so much among Canada's calm, affluent citizens that they are ready to hurry out and vote for Diefenbaker. Many Conservatives think they would lose an election with the old man, and they are openly muttering that he is all that is keeping the Liberals in office...
...negotiations this fall, however, they received an 18 cent hourly pay raise, so that their salary would not be decreased severely if the stopped working on Saturdays. Mulhern estimates that the maids will lose about four dollars a week...